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A man known as Chachito, a resident of the Havana neighborhood of Santa Amalia, was found lying alone on a corner of his locality after being released by the Cuban regime as part of the mass pardon of 2,010 prisoners announced by the regime, according to a report shared by the communicator Luis Lozano and echoed by La Tijera News.
Chachito went from being a common prisoner to becoming a political prisoner and a stalwart within Castro's prisons, a category that historically designates those who refused to submit to the regime's re-education programs, asserting their status as prisoners of conscience.
He was found in a critical condition: a sick man, close to 60 years, unable to walk and with clear signs of the physical and psychological torture endured during years of captivity.
Your case adds to a long list of releases that human rights organizations have deemed inadequate and incomplete. According to Human Rights Watch, none of the more than 700 remaining political prisoners were included in the pardon, highlighting the selective and propagandistic nature of the measure.
Organizations such as Justicia 11J have also warned that many of these releases are carried out under conditional and revocable penitentiary benefits, meaning that those released can be returned to prison at any time, without any real guarantees of freedom.
The institutional neglect that Chachito suffers is not an isolated case. The Family Support System serves only 67,000 people across the country, a negligible figure compared to the magnitude of the social crisis that Cuba is experiencing.
Similar cases have been documented recently. The former boxer Gaspar Casamayor Álvarez, recognized as a Sports Glory, was reported to be in a state of abandonment despite his athletic career. The case of 63-year-old Camilo González, surviving in the open at the entrance of a hospital was also revealed, as well as that of an elderly man from Bayamo who collects cans in dumps to survive.
Chachito is, according to those who reported his situation, a victim of abandonment and repression by a system that first imprisons and tortures, and then returns its victims to the street without resources, without family support, and without any type of assistance.
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